I figured it would be handy to have a sidebar panel that displayed some info (via TAGZ) about the currently playing or currently selected track. This will probably be a little redundant for people with complex/complete playlist displays, but for others that have limited info displayed in their playlist I hope this will be useful to you.

now-playing mode - displays info according to the currently playing track

follow cursor mode - displays info about the focused item in the current playlist

Switch between these modes by either double left-clicking or single middle-clicking on the panel. It also supports drag and drop in both directions: dragging a file over the panel will temporarily show the info for that track, and dropping will display that info until you left click.

You can configure the display for all modes using a single TAGZ formatting string in the preferences. It supports the regular TAGZ and special fields (%_isplaying%,%_ispaused%,%_time_total%,etc), plus a few specific to the panel:

%_trackinfo_mode% a string containing either "Dropped","Follow cursor", or "Now playing" according to the current display mode of the panel.

%_trackinfo_dropped%, %_trackinfo_followcursor%, %_trackinfo_nowplaying%one (and only one) of these strings will be "1" (the others will be an empty string), again depending on the current display mode of the panel (useful for $if functions)

%_trackinfo_notrack%set to "1" when the panel has no track to display (happens when starting up in now-playing mode)

To get a line-break use $char(10). You can also change the alignment of a single line by putting either $char(1)C or $char(1)R at the very start of the line, where the C and R stand for Centered and Right (left aligned is the default). Below I have included the script responsible for the above screenshot, so check that out if you are unsure. Obviously you'd want some technical info displayed, but that is just an example. Most of you guys are much better at this than I am anyway.

- the word-wrap thing is nice and being able to disable it will be nice but I was wondering if you could make it a step further. I would like to have some text word-wrapped and some other I dont mind being cut by the edges (the normal behaviour without word-wrap) so maybe something like $char(X)W could activate world wrap (of course if you have word-wrap on, everything will be word wrapped so in that case this code would be ignored)

- I was wondering if you could add some more options in your follow-cursor/item selected mode. I was wondering if you could expend it so it can detect multiple selection and have some %_total_selected_lenght%, %_total_selected_items%, etc. variables , that would offer nice possibilities

- the word-wrap thing is nice and being able to disable it will be nice but I was wondering if you could make it a step further. I would like to have some text word-wrapped and some other I dont mind being cut by the edges (the normal behaviour without word-wrap) so maybe something like $char(X)W could activate world wrap (of course if you have word-wrap on, everything will be word wrapped so in that case this code would be ignored)

Hrmm... well considering I was going to make word-wrap optional, this does seem logical I guess.

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- I was wondering if you could add some more options in your follow-cursor/item selected mode. I was wondering if you could expend it so it can detect multiple selection and have some %_total_selected_lenght%, %_total_selected_items%, etc. variables , that would offer nice possibilities

Sure, I've had multiple-selection planned from the start.

@Zurman:Weird. I have no idea why it wouldn't be working for you.EDIT: does scrolling work in the albumlist panel when you move your mouse over it (without actually clicking in the albumlist)?